Hdd Crash!!!!, please Help me for best Hard disk recovery tool Options

[yogihit]

Hello All
Yesterday my new HDD (500 GB) crashed.. I lost everything..

Please Help me for best Hard disk recovery tool or someway to recover my HDD
I am not worry about software’s but my songs..

urs
Yogi

[yogihit]

Hi..
Faraaj Bhi you are right.. now i learned ... i will keep 2 sets
today i will try with laptop.

Exon ji
I have Fedora 10, I will try with that also

Devji ji
this options also very good
i will download and try that

sonu Ji
this is gr8 option "Drive rescue" software let me try with this one..
most IMP you said..
"2) did you got the USB case made for that HD separately? or it was a USB HD built in it External USB cases are not very reliable. any voltage fluctuation can render your HD useless ! As happened with my Frds HD. he had got a USB case made for his HD.
"
that must be problem, that external convertor USB case is not standard company. That case any HDD (IDE type etc) can use as a USB drive.

I must check all related Voltage fluctuation

Thank you all of you for gr8 and valuable suggestions and quick reply too.

Yours
Yogesh

[oye_sonu]

sonu Ji
this is gr8 option "Drive rescue" software let me try with this one..
most IMP you said..
"2) did you got the USB case made for that HD separately? or it was a USB HD built in it External USB cases are not very reliable. any voltage fluctuation can render your HD useless ! As happened with my Frds HD. he had got a USB case made for his HD.
"
that must be problem, that external convertor USB case is not standard company. That case any HDD (IDE type etc) can use as a USB drive.

I must check all related Voltage fluctuation

Thank you all of you for gr8 and valuable suggestions and quick reply too.

Yours
Yogesh

Yogesh ji ........Original USB drive sahi rehti hai. Converted HD problem karti hai kyonki donon dusre companies ki hoti hai. Hum thoda paise bachaane ke chakker mein IDE/SATA ko USB mein convert kar lete hain but long run mein costy padti hai !

Voltage fluctation : Kaafi saare logon ko ye hi nahin malooom ki improper shutdown bahut damage karta hai HD aur computer ko. 10-15 baar karke dekho.........kya hota hai ;-) hehe

Regards

Sonu

[sani_thakur]

One of my 500 GB HDDs crashed late last year after several months of the "click of death" warning (which I did not realize at that time). And for a good month I actually pretended everything to be perfect to avoid realization of a problem (and I had nothing backed up -- and this was my primary music/movies/data storage drive).

Then I finally made some time and spent about 4-6 hours on YouTube learning everything about hard drives. It was only then I came to know about the "click of death" -- which I had ignored for many months. If your HDD clicks for whatever reason -- it will die soon enough and you must backup ASAP.

And from the many (initial) solutions they mentioned, one tiny one actually worked for me, thankfully. I used Linux (more specifically Knoppix). And it was quite cold outside so I did open my window and kept the room really cold (I am talking around 5 to 6 deg C). Cool temperatures are super good for your HDD.

And when I switched to Windows-7, it worked as well. So my HDD actually let me copy-paste stuff from it (that's all I wanted), but not write on to it ! I first got all my songs and University/Job stuff. I have yet to transfer the rest. It gets very hot very fast and starts the clicking noise around 45 min so I am taking it very slow.

Worst case scenario -- spend money (I had gotten quotes from some companies in the mean time, around $1100 to $1500 for my level of problem) and get someone to recover it using professional tools. Had that not worked either, I swear I would have cried like a little girl.

Now I actually have at least two copies of everything. I await a Blue-Ray burner so I can burn them all for a third back-up. That should do I suppose.

This post has been edited by sani_thakur: Jul 25 2009, 03:05 AM